Replacing tele bridge to humbucker

[Really_retarded]

Excuse me for barging in here with retarded questions that I'm sure you've already answered a million times. I hate it when people do that at forums i frequent, but that's why I'm an *******, and maybe you guys are not?

Anyway, I recently bought a cheap tele copy and got a humbucker thingie to replace the stock bridge pup with. I checked out the schematics on the seymour duncan website and things seem pretty clear to me, except for one thing, the red and white wires that are soldered together, where do they go? They seem to just hang there in the schematic on this site, but surely that's not right?

I'm pretty sure this is obvious to most people here, but I can't seem to find an answer from searching the web, so if someone would be so kind as to answer, you can all have a nice laugh at my expense later.

Deal?

 

[bert123]

Re: Replacing tele bridge to humbucker

They just hang out. Of course you should use some black electrical tape on the solder joint so they don't short out on something else in the control cavity.

 

[Imp]

Re: Replacing tele bridge to humbucker

yep, taped together and left be!

i usually fold them back on the cable and hold 'em down with a rubber band or something similar...

tom

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Replacing tele bridge to humbucker

Just tape them off. These wires are for coil splitting, but if you're not doing any of that, just tape them off.

 

[Really_retarded]

Re: Replacing tele bridge to humbucker

Thanks for all the great info, I've never seen a friendlier forum actually. I just put the guitar together again after replacing the pickup and it seems it was a total failure. No sound from either middle or bridge position on the guitar, which I find curious, because I thought the middle position would still retain some sound from the neck pickup? Possible short circuit?

Anyway, after I soldered stuff together but before I put the control and bridge back on, I plugged it in and waved my keys over the bridge pickup, there was a sound coming when I did that so I think I wired it correctly at least?

So, it's a short circuit, right? I hope my sub-par soldering didn't break when I put it together, but I don't think so...

 

[Imp]

Re: Replacing tele bridge to humbucker

chances are something's touching it shouldn't inside the guitar.. poke around gently with the wiring, you might get intermittent sound!

tom

 

[Really_retarded]

Re: Replacing tele bridge to humbucker

Hehee, solved it, you won't believe how stupid I was...

I actually managed to mix up the ground wire and the one that goes to the switcher. Which gave me some sound until I put the bridge back on (so that it connected with the ground wire). It led to lots of confusion until I finally gave it some though and realized I'm an idiot. Thanks for all the help, much appreciated.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Replacing tele bridge to humbucker

No worries man, we all make mistakes.

Funny thing is, its usually the little ones that give me the hardest time. :burnout:

 

[Imp]

Re: Replacing tele bridge to humbucker

lol the worst mistakes are the ones you don't spot, the ones you don't spot easily are the small ones

tom

 

[Curly]

Re: Replacing tele bridge to humbucker

just FYI, from my own experience smack and what I've observed here, if there is no sound, it's usually from reversing the ground and hot wires, especially the ones going to the input jack